Abstract

PATINO, Martha J.. The imaginative narrative as a way of accessing solidarity. An educational proposal from pragmatism and neopragmatism. Hallazgos [online]. 2018, vol.15, n.29, pp.87-109. ISSN 1794-3841.  https://doi.org/10.15332/s1794-3841.2018.0029.04.

This article raises the need to acknowledge the forms of narrative present in educational processes, and also presents the need for taking into account another more subtle form and directed towards education of sensitivity for solidarity, as the main hypothesis of this text argues that individuals are educated in two particularly powerful ways of rationality, which derive in a desensitization towards others and towards nature. This particular situation is evidenced in radical selfishness, in unconscious consumerism, in the exclusion of others and in the destruction of nature. As a method of analysis, the problem is examined under the light of the criticism of objective-positive thinking, from the point of view of Dewey's classical pragmatism and Rorty's neopragmatism as well as the corresponding critique of technological-instrumental reason is presented from the Frankfurt School. All of the above in order to offer a proposal of a lexicon, that allows us to integrate an imaginative narrative that is oriented towards the creation of an ethos of empathy and solidarity, which is considered a utopian perspective, possible only to the extent that it makes visible another aspect of humanity ignored most of the time in educational environments, to make possible the moral progress that as humans constitutes our responsibility.

Keywords : narratives; rationalities; solidarity; pragmatism; neopragmatism; imagination.

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